Death & Dying
A. D. Blood
From Spoon River Anthology (1916)
Death & Dying
If you in the village think that my work was a good one,
Who closed the saloons and stopped all playing at cards,
And haled old Daisy Fraser before Justice Arnett,
In many a crusade to purge the people of sin;
Why do you let the milliner’s daughter Dora,
And the worthless son of Benjamin Pantier
Nightly make my grave their unholy pillow?
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Masters, Edgar Lee. “A. D. Blood.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/masters/67/.
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Masters, Edgar Lee. “A. D. Blood.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/masters/67/.
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